Al-Nassr vs Al Ettifaq - prediction, team news, lineups

Al-Nassr volition invited Al-Ettifaq to Al-Awwal Park connected Wednesday arsenic they proceed their propulsion to triumph their archetypal Saudi Pro League rubric successful years pursuing erstwhile disappointments.

Currently apical of the table with a five-point pb implicit defending champions Al-Hilal, the Global One caput into the fixture successful beardown signifier and volition beryllium assured of extending their vantage against visitors who are enduring a hard tally of results.

Match preview

Al-Nassr pb the Roshen Professional League with 73 points pursuing a important 2-0 triumph implicit Al-Akhdoud connected Saturday successful Matchday 28, a effect that moved them 5 points wide of second-placed Al-Hilal, who beryllium connected 68 points, portion besides highlighting the league leaders’ attacking spot and antiaircraft solidity, having scored 78 goals and conceded conscionable 21, the second-best antiaircraft grounds successful the division.

Jorge Jesus’s broadside are chasing their archetypal Saudi Pro League rubric successful galore years but indispensable archetypal navigate a demanding six-match run-in, opening adjacent Wednesday with Matchday 29 against Al-Ittifaq, followed by a location clash against Al-Ahli connected 28 April successful Matchday 30.

The situation continues successful Matchday 31 erstwhile Al-Nassr question to look Al-Qadisiyah connected 2 May, earlier hosting metropolis rivals Al-Hilal successful a perchance decisive Riyadh derby the pursuing week.

Al-Alami volition past reason their run with a fixture against Al-Shabab connected 13 May successful Matchday 33 earlier rounding disconnected the play against Damac successful the last circular connected 21 May.

The Riyadh-based nine person scored 76 goals this play and boast an outstanding location record, collecting 36 points from 13 matches, portion besides maintaining an awesome +28 extremity difference.

With conscionable 1 triumph successful their past six matches, Al-Ettifaq are enduring a mediocre tally of signifier that has seen them gaffe to seventh spot successful the league standings.

Their struggles continued past week with a 3-2 location decision to relegation-threatened Al-Riyadh, a peculiarly damaging nonaccomplishment aft surrendering a two-goal pb successful the archetypal half.

The decision ended a tally of 7 consecutive unbeaten location games and besides marked Al-Ettifaq’s 3rd location nonaccomplishment astatine the EGO Stadium successful Dammam.

Away from home, Faris Ad-Dahna person mislaid their past 5 matches, taking their play tally to 7 defeats connected the roadworthy aft suffering lone 1 distant nonaccomplishment to Al-Fateh successful October 2025, with the remaining six defeats coming since the crook of the year.

However, their past sojourn to Al-Nassr produced a melodramatic 3-2 victory, with Georginio Wijnaldum scoring a second-half hat-trick to unafraid a memorable triumph for Saad Al-Shehri’s side.

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Team News

Spanish defender Inigo Martinez is acceptable to diagnostic against Al-Ettifaq connected Wednesday aft taking portion successful training, portion Angelo Gabriel is besides disposable for selection.

Goalkeeper Nawaf Al-Aqidi underwent a thorough aesculapian valuation aft sustaining a musculus wounded that required involution from the club’s aesculapian unit and caused him to miss their astir caller league victory.

Al-Nassr besides look the hazard of losing respective cardinal players up of adjacent week’s anticipated clash against Al-Ahli, with 5 players 1 booking distant from suspension aft accumulating 3 yellowish cards, meaning different caution connected Wednesday would regularisation them retired of the upcoming encounter.

The players astatine hazard of suspension see Abdulrahman Ghareeb, Nawaf Boushal, Sultan Al-Ghannam, Mohamed Simakan and Marcelo Brozovic.

For the visitors, Al-Ettifaq volition invited backmost defender Abdullah Al-Khatib aft recovering from a hamstring wounded and returning to afloat grooming up of the trip.

Midfield duo Mokhtar Ali and Jack Hendry are besides backmost successful contention aft serving suspensions that ruled them retired of the erstwhile match.

Meanwhile, erstwhile Orlando Pirates winger Mohau Nkota, who was omitted from the squad successful the decision to Al-Riyadh, could instrumentality to the broadside for the clash against the league leaders.

Al-Nassr imaginable starting lineup:

Bento; Boushal, Simakan, Al Amri, Yahya; Coman, Brozovic, Gabriel, Mane; Felix, Ronaldo

Al Ettifaq imaginable starting lineup:

Rodak; Al Olayan, Hindi, Calvo, Al Otaibi; Duda, Medran; Costa, Wijnaldum, Al Ghannam; Dembele

We say: Al-Nassr 3-1 Al Ettifaq

Jorge Jesus’s men person performed powerfully successful their past 2 outings astatine Al-Awwal Park and volition beryllium aiming to unafraid different 3 points, portion Al-Ettifaq’s mediocre signifier and struggles distant from location permission them facing a hard task.

With the attacking trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane and Joao Felix, Al-Nassr are expected to person capable firepower to unafraid triumph against the Commandos connected Wednesday.

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